Category: 7. SciTech

Termites reveal a startling consequence of long-term monogamy – the resulting lack of competition between the reproductive sperm of rival males led to the loss of tails in their sperm.

This involved losing a suite of genes, which contributed to their complex shift from solitary cockroaches…

Imagine this: A person walks into a room and knocks a ball off a table. 

Did you imagine the gender of the person? The color of the ball? The position of the person relative to the ball?

Yes and no, says cognitive scientist Tomer Ullman, the Morris Kahn Associate Professor of…

Here’s a statistical challenge worthy of a grandmaster: How do you create an accurate ranking system when the best players usually don’t win?

This is the conundrum of elite chess. The stronger the players, the greater the odds of the match ending in a draw.

“What ended up…

US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has filled an autism committee with friends, associates, and former colleagues who believe that autism is caused by vaccines. Autism advocates are now worried the group could pave the way for dangerous pseudoscientific treatments going mainstream.

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Winter is not for the faint of heart. In Moscow, January temperatures hover in the low teens. In New York City, skyscrapers…